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Definition of endorse verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

endorse

verb
 
/ɪnˈdɔːs/
 
/ɪnˈdɔːrs/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they endorse
 
/ɪnˈdɔːs/
 
/ɪnˈdɔːrs/
he / she / it endorses
 
/ɪnˈdɔːsɪz/
 
/ɪnˈdɔːrsɪz/
past simple endorsed
 
/ɪnˈdɔːst/
 
/ɪnˈdɔːrst/
past participle endorsed
 
/ɪnˈdɔːst/
 
/ɪnˈdɔːrst/
-ing form endorsing
 
/ɪnˈdɔːsɪŋ/
 
/ɪnˈdɔːrsɪŋ/
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  1. endorse something to say publicly that you support a person, statement or course of action
    • I wholeheartedly endorse his remarks.
    • Members of all parties endorsed a ban on land mines.
    Extra Examples
    • The government has broadly endorsed the research paper.
    • The newspaper has formally endorsed the Democratic candidate.
    • The plan does not explicitly endorse the private ownership of land.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • enthusiastically
    • heartily
    • strongly
    verb + endorse
    • fail to
    • refuse to
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  2. endorse something to say in an advertisement that you use and like a particular product so that other people will want to buy it
    • I wonder how many celebrities actually use the products they endorse.
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  3. [usually passive] (British English) to put details of a driving offence on somebody’s driving record
    • have something/be endorsed You risk having your licence endorsed.
  4. endorse something to write your name on the back of a cheque so that it can be paid into a bank account
  5. Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘write on the back of’; formerly also as indorse): from medieval Latin indorsare, from Latin in- ‘in, on’ + dorsum ‘back’.
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